måndag 22 december 2014

Mark Devries,the man behind Speciesism: The Movie, has during the last two years been working on a project called the Factory Farm Drone Project. He's been using drones to have a look at pig factory farms in the USA. Watch the video below to see what he found.

söndag 21 december 2014

This evenings blog post contains a mix with different subjects. The connection between them is legal rights for nonhuman animals. I hope you will enjoy!Animal rights lawyer Steven M. Wise visited Sweden this summer. He gave a lecture in the city Båstad. Peter Nilsson posted the lecture on his animal rights blog in October, that’s where I saw it first. I found it very interesting so I’ll share it as well.

Lecture with Steven M. Wise

Steven M. Wise is an animal rights lawyer he is also the founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project. He’s been working with the issue concerning legal rights for nonhuman animals for more than 30 years.

In the documentary Unlocking the Cage two filmmakers are following Wise as he goes to court battling for the rights of a few nonhuman animals. I’m very much looking forward watching Unlocking the Cage it seems very interesting and exciting! The documentary is produced by Frazer Pennebaker and Rosadel Varela.Find more info about Unlocking the Cagehere and on Kickstarter.

About Unlocking the Cage

As I mentioned Steven M. Wise and the Nonhuman Rights Project went to court representing a few individuals. Unfortunately they lost one of the cases – the one known as the Tommy Case where they represented a 26 year-old chimpanzee named Tommy. Read more about it in New York Daily News here and on Steven Wise’s blog here.

A chimpanzee in a cage. Photo courtesy: Animal Equality.

If you want to know more about legal rights for animals here’s a list of literature by Steven M. Wise:

Dolphin rights!

To end this blog post with something more cheerful I can tell you a little about something that happened in India last year, it has to do with dolphins!
In May of 2013 India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests decided to ban import of dolphins in the whole country. The ministry wants to protect dolphins and other cetaceans from exploitation, for example in dolphin and orca whale (also known as killer whale) shows.

“Whereas cetaceans in general are highly intelligent and sensitive, and various scientists who have researched dolphin behavior have suggested that the unusually high intelligence; as compared to other animals means that dolphin should be seen as ‘non-human persons’ and as such should have their own specific rights and is morally unacceptable to keep them captive for entertainment purpose”

B. S. Bonal, the member secretary of the Central Zoo Authority of India.

lördag 20 december 2014

Jim Morris: Lifelong Fitness is a 14 minutes short documentary about the bodybuilder and vegan Jim Morris.Jim Morris became a vegan about 15 years ago. I understand why the movie director and producer Ryan Vance found Jim Morris life interesting. Morris was actually the first openly gay bodybuilder to win the bodybuilding competition Mr. America.The movie had its release in 2013 and can now be viewed in film festivals. Find out more about the movie on Imdb.com and on its Facebook page. Watch two trailers below.

onsdag 10 december 2014

I've had an interest in elephants for a while. These beautiful and magnificent animals are compelling to me. It's very sad that the elephants living in freedom could become extinct in 11 years. That's what I learned from this short film called Last Days. Check out its homepage here and watch it below.

torsdag 4 december 2014

As many of the vegetarians and vegans out there probably know one can buy vegan caviar in many of the common supermarkets nowadays.In Sweden we recently got caviar in tube which pleases a lot of the vegans and vegetarians living here. Anyhow, this video shows us just how vegan caviar is made something I knew very little about until now.

Racing Extinction, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Unity are three movies focusing on the relationship between humans and the other animals. Here are some short news about these movies and a little extra.

Racing Extinction

Racing Extinction, formerly known as 6 the Movie, will premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in January. Racing Extinction is made by the team behind the awarded The Cove.Homepage here.

Racing Extinction Trailer

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. Homepage here.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Trailer

Film Festivals in November

During the end of November there have been two film festivals one in the Brazilian city Curitiba and the other in the Czech capital Prague both highlighting the treatment of animals. Find out more about them www.mostraanimal.com.br and en.zviratajsoutakylidi.cz.

Unity

And finally, the eagerly awaited premiere of Unity has once more been postponed this time until Earth Day 2015 which is the 22nd of April. Unity is the part two of the Earthling’s trilogy. Homepage here.

söndag 28 september 2014

Now this is a praiseworthy initiative! :) Once a year around the world marches to close all slaughterhouses are being held. The first marches were held in June 2012 in the French cities Paris and Castres. Check out the official website on the link here to find out where marches are being held in June 2015.

This is such a great thing, in my opinion there should be marches like these in every town in the whole world! Why not arrange one in your town?

Given Half A Chance is a short documentary from 2014 written, directed and produced by Mikaela Horton, an 18 year old high school student. In Given Half A Chance there are many interviews with animal rights activists and people working with sanctuaries. Two of the persons we get to listen to are Liz Marshall director of The Ghosts In Our Machine and Jo-Anne McArthur from the same documentary and the project We Animals.

Given Half A Chance is a calm documentary with no horrifying scenes. It’s about 16 minutes, watch it here below.

Racing Extinction is the same documentary as 6 The Movie - the producers decided to change it's name. I believe they made a good choice since it will be easier to find the film by it's new name.Just the other day the movie team projected film clips on the UN building in New York. Why? Because they want to raise awareness on the issue of mass extinction of species in the world and it's causes. Watch the video below and see it for yourself.

Illuminating the UN

Racing Extinction is produced by the same people who produced the award winning documentary The Cove in 2009. You can watch the trailer for Racing Extinction below.

Racing Extinction trailer

On the link here you'll find the Imdb.com page for Racing Extinction/6 The Movie. And here is the official website!That's all for now, have a great day!

fredag 26 september 2014

In the documentary Farming Humans the plan is to follow 12 humans as they go through similar horrors as pigs, cows and chickens do in animal agriculture. If you think it sounds like a great idea you can support the documentary via http://www.gofundme.com/8tf3hs. You can also follow the development through their Facebook event.

Farming Humans Documentary 2014 Announcement

I don’t know if I think it’s a good idea to treat humans as bad as other animals are being treated. Just to be clear I dislike the way the non-human animals are being treated in many places. I have my doubts that two wrongs can make one right. Then again, the way animals on farms are being treated many things must be done in order to change the situation! Hopefully this will be an eye opening documentary for a lot of people. We’ll just have to see.

Hello and welcome to Rörelse för djurrätt – for the first time in English!

My name is Christoffer and I’m the main blogger on Rörelse för djurrätt. Today I’m going to tell you a little bit about this blog.

Rörelse för djurrätt has been alive since January 2010. This is a blog about and for animal rights and issues thereabout. A simple translation of the name Rörelse för djurrätt is Movement for Animal Rights.

The posts are usually in Swedish but this time and hereafter more often in English.

The Ghosts In Our Machine poster.

The last years I’ve had a bit of a focus on animal rights documentaries for example Unity, Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home, The Witness, Earthlings, The Ghosts In Our Machine and so on. I have also written about other things and other movies – such as the series about the Planet of the Apes.

When it comes to fictional movies (like Planet of the Apes) one can interpret them by watching them with an inner animal rights lens, shifting the perspective from a human centered view to a view where the animals are central and starting to identify with “The Others” – in this case the animals of other species.

Rörelse för djurrätt's movie guide

If you’re interested in movies then you can find lots of interesting animal rights documentaries in Rörelse för djurrätt’s movie guide. The info about them is mostly in Swedish but the trailers are most often in English. Have a look! :) All the posts about movies are found under “Om filmer” in the menu. Hopefully you can find one or two movies new to you there.

Tom Regan's Defending Animal Rights is one of the books you can find among the animal rights literature.

Book list & vegan recipes

Do come back to Rörelse för djurrätt. One way to remember it is to bookmark the page! You can like the blog on Facebook and I'd like if you comment if you have something to add, or a question or two :)

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Om/About

In English: Rörelse för djurrätt is a blog supporting the idea of animal rights. It started out in Swedish but now I'm also blogging in English.Feel free to comment and drop by again. Find more information under Om/About in the menu./Christoffer Edström